Workshops Announced for 3rd ¡Presente! Conference

On Saturday, March 2, the 2nd ¡Presente! Conference will offer 18 workshops to registered attendees. Full descriptions are found by clicking here.

Session 1 – 11:15am – 12:45am

• Collaborative Practice: Envisioning a non-discriminatory Art Praxis
• Consent Matters: Everything I Know About Consent I Learned From BDSM
• Decolonizing Gender
• LGBTQI+ Latinx Survivors Healing from Child Sexual Abuse Praxis
• VOGUE! THE OLD WAY! THE ONLY WAY! LOVE IS THE MESSAGE!
• Where Does the Garbage Go?: On Cancel Culture and Disposability

Session 2 – 2:15pm – 3:15pm

• Anti-Blackness: It’s Not Only White People & Let’s Stop Pretending There’s Anything Micro About Micro-Aggressions
• Challenging Transphobia in Feminist Organizing
• Identity Document Support Workshop
• Latina Punks in Higher Education
• TU ME DICES NACA, OSEA SOY REINA DE LAS NACAS!
• Written in the Stars: On Chosen Family and Platonic Love

Session 3 – 3:30pm – 4:30pm

• Cruising Academia
• Fat. Femme. Fashionable: Beyond Body Positivity
• Issues and Solutions for the Salton Sea
• QTIPOC Magic
• The Revolution Starts at Home: Outreaching to Latino Parents of LGBTQ+ individuals
• Tequio: Planting Seeds Across Generations

Abeni Jones To Speak Saturday Morning at the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference

Abeni Jones Self-Portrait

Abeni Jones will speak Saturday morning at the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference on March 2, 2019 at UC Riverside.

Abeni Jones is a disabled, multiracial, trans woman educator, facilitator, artist, graphic designer, writer, and former middle and high school teacher based in San Francisco, CA. Her flagship workshop, “How to Take Care of Each Other: Community Care in Times of Crisis” was presented across the country throughout 2018, including at national conferences such as Facing Race, and Abeni is turning it into a book this year! During the day she’s a graphic designer and advertising professional for a Black history-focused nonprofit media company, and she also does freelance design work and workshop facilitation, and babysits a young trans girl. Read more about her at abenijones.net 

Apply online by February 8 to attend the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference, a queer college conference for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) with a focus on people who identify as part of the Latin/South/Central American diaspora. The conference is presented by La Familia de UCR, Chicano Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center of UC Riverside.

The California Endowment, African Student Programs, Native American Student Programs, and the Highlander Empowerment Referendum help make the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference possible.

Jennicet Gutiérrez and Bamby Salcedo

The 3rd ¡Presente! Conference on March 2, 2019 will close with Jennicet Gutiérrez and Bamby Salcedo in conversation.

Jennicet Gutiérrez is an activist for transgender rights and immigrant rights. A founding member of La Familia: Trans Queer Liberation Movement, much of her activist work supports trans women detained for their immigration status.

Bamby Salcedo is a national and international transgender Latina Woman who is pursuing a master’s degree in Latino/a Studies. Bamby is the President and CEO of the TransLatin@ Coalition, a national organization that focuses on addressing the issues of transgender Latinxs in the US. Bamby has served and participated in many local, national and international organizations and planning groups. This work mediates intersections of race, gender, sexuality, age, social class, HIV+ status, immigration status and more.

Apply online by February 8 to attend the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference, a queer college conference for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) with a focus on people who identify as part of the Latin/South/Central American diaspora. The conference is presented by La Familia de UCR, Chicano Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center of UC Riverside, with support from The California Endowment.

Bitter Brown Femmes To Open 3rd ¡Presente! Conference at UCR

Bitter Brown Femmes will open the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference at UCR on Friday, March 1, 2019. 

Bitter Brown Femmes is a podcast hosted by Ruben (Queer Xicano Chisme) and Cassandra (Xicanisma) that tackles social, political, emotional, and community issues. It was born of a necessity to take the Latinx/Chicanx community dialogue beyond mere identity empowerment and feel good/comedic fluff (that although, have their place, oversaturate social media) and into a realm that is critical of identity and society while advocating for marginalized peoples.

"We also aim to disrupt liberal complacency in systems of oppression by living up to our motto of: Dismantling Shit While Talking Shit!"

Doors open at 6pm for Poesía Peligrosa - an evening of poetry, artivismo, art gallery, and vendors presented with Teatro Quinto Sol and CSP's Semana de la Mujer. ¡Presente! Conference opening podcast with Bitter Brown Femmes at 7pm, open mic to follow.  
Friday's opening is FREE and open to the public. ASL interpretation provided. Free parking provided.

Saturday's conference events require an online application/registration, due February 8, 2019.

The California Endowment and the Highlander Empowerment Referendum help make the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference possible.

3rd ¡Presente! Conference Set for March 1-2, 2019 at UC Riverside

La Familia de UCR, Chicano Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center of UC Riverside invite you to join Un Espacio For Our QT Community at the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference on March 1-2, 2019.

The ¡Presente! Conference is a queer college conference for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) with a focus on people who identify as part of the Latin/South/Central American diaspora, including but not limited to  Afro-Indigenous, Afro-Latinx, Brown, Latinx, Chicanx, and Indigenous people. People of all genders and sexualities are welcome to apply to attend.

The Call for Workshops/Presentations is now open, with online submissions has been extended. The online Application/Registration form is also open for those wishing to attend Saturday's events. Anyone who submits a workshop or presentation program proposal will have their registration fee waive if accepted to attend, regardless of whether their proposal is accepted.

For the past two years, UCR has hosted the ¡Presente! Conference, with over 30 campuses represented. Participants' cultural backgrounds included Afro-Columbian, Afro-Indigenous, Afro Latina, Afro-Mexican, Apache, Bolivian, Brazilian, Brown, Brown Chapinx,  Central American, CentroAmericanx, Chicana, Chicano, Chicanx, Chilean, Columbian, Costa Rican, Cuban, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Ecuadorian American, Guatemalan, Guatemanteca, Hispanic, Hispanic Mexican, Honduran, Indigenous, Latina, Latino, Latinx, Mayan, Mestiza, Mescalero Apache, Mexica-Chihimeca, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexicana, Mexika-Chichimeca, Mixed, Mixtec, Multi-Ethnic, Nahua, Native, Nicaraguan, Oaxacan, Oaxaquena, Panamanian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Purhepecha descendant, Raza, Salvadoran, Salvadoran American, Salvadoreña, Salvadoreño, SalviMex, Tejanx, Tejano, Wixarika, Xicana, Xicano, Xinanx, and many other identities.and many other identities.

The California Endowment and the Highlander Empowerment Referendum help make the 3rd ¡Presente! Conference possible.

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¡Presente! Conference 2018 @ UC Riverside

Join Gabby Rivera & Poesía Peligrosa at ¡Presente! Opening on Friday, February 9 at UCR

Everyone is welcome to attend the FREE ¡Presente! Conference opening in the Highlander U nion Building / HUB 302 on Friday, February 9. This event features both Gabby Rivera, a writer for America Chavez (Marvel's queer latinx superhero), and UCR's Poesía Peligrosa.

Join us at 6pm for visual art displays and community. Gabby Rivera will speak at 7pm on "Inspiring Radical Creativity," as well as do a book signing. Afterwards, the stage is available for Open Mic.

ASL interpretation will be provided for Gabby Rivera's talk.

Gabby Rivera is an outgoing, outspoken creator invested in fostering better dialogue, inspiring radical creativity, and improving our most vulnerable communities. The author of Juliet Takes a Breath, she’s also the writer of the new Marvel series America Chavez—featuring the first queer, Latinx teen-girl superhero.

Poesía Peligrosa is a quarterly event celebrating arte en nuestra comunidad (art in our community). Poesía Peligrosa is sponsored by Teatro Quinto Sol, M.E.Ch.A. de UCR and Chicano Student Programs.

The 2nd !Presente! Conference is sponsored by La Familia de UCR, Chicano Student Programs, and the LGBT Resource Center. Gabby Rivera's appearance is co-sponsored by the Associated Students Program Board*. This event is supported by the Highlander Empowerment Referendum.

*ASPB co-sponsorship does not constitute an endorsement of the views and opinions expressed.